For the second year, the City of Akron will feature the Akron Symphony Orchestra in a pops concert on Monday, July 4 with a grand fireworks finale inside Lock 3 at 9:45 p.m.

On the Akron General Lock 3 Stage all weekend will be tributes to Bon Jovi, the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and on Saturday, Lock 3 presents the music of "The Boss," Bruce in the USA, the World's #1 Tribute to Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band.

There will also be mechanical rides for children on Main Street, inflatable rides in Lock 3 and the "Magical Train" will be doing tours of the Towpath along the canal. Rides are available by purchasing tickets at the site.

There will be continuous music during the four-day festival including the following bands: The Satisfiers; Bad Medicine, A Tribute to Bon Jovi; Alex Bevan; Mo Mojo; Bruce in the USA, The World's #1 Tribute to Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band; Big House, a Tribute to the Allman Brothers; Second Helping, a Salute to Lynyrd Skynyrd; River City Jazz Band; Brass Band of the Western Reserve; and closing the weekend will be the Akron Symphony Orchestra Pops with fireworks at 9:45 p.m. Monday.

As noted above, American music classics begin at 3 p.m. with the River City Jazz Band, and continue with the Brass Band of the Western Reserve (5:30 p.m.) The Akron Symphony's program, "American Icons" under the direction of Christopher Wilkins, will even feature cannon fire as punctuation, asking the musical question, "What if Richard Rodgers (like Tchaikovsky) thought a cannon was an instrument?"